Well there is a high possibility that I just suck. I enjoyed most of the game, but the end just kept dragging on and on. Then when u think u killed the final boss the seemingly unbeatable final final boss arises from nowhere for one last battle. Who knows, there might be 6 more battles for all I know!

I'm sure I suck more than you. I haven't been playing any video games lately, and when I was still playing, I would usually play on the easier difficulties because I didn't want to invest so much effort. How old I've become!

I finished “Mass Effect” last night in a quest to create a character to port over to “Mass Effect 2” and eventually “Mass Effect 3.” I didn’t get a high a level as the first time I played but then this time I didn’t explore every little part of the galaxy.

I immediately started again I got quite far in the primary quest line in just a couple hours. Helps that your skills and weapons stay with you and the new stuff you find is based on your characters level. I can no turn up the difficulty w/o getting slaughtered.

It also is making things faster that I didn’t have to re-learn where everything is on the Citadel.

I’ve found a new appreciation for the Macco(sp) vs the “mining” in #2 which now IMO sucks even worse. At least with the planet exploration in the Macco you don’t really have to do a lot of it if you don’t want but there is a lot of stuff you need to buy in ME2 which requires to much mining.

Since I've been a little tight in the pocket book lately,(with the help of my air conditioning and water heater going kaput on me) I haven't bought a game since God of War 3. I ended up putting back in COD4 MW1 and forgot how much fun I had playing this game.

I have a gold 1 year membership to xbox live, but haven't activated it yet. I'm wanting to get semi good again before going online and getting my butt handed to me.

So I gave final fantasy 13 another try tonight. I re-equipped my characters with HP enhancing items and damage reducing items... Left a couple magic increasing items on one character. I sold everything else I owned and got 400,00 Gil or so. I spent alll of the cash on upgrade components. Upgraded my hp and damage reduction items so that I had nearly 10,000 hp on my main char with a 25% reduction in physical damage on my main char.

With all of these changes I was finally able to beat the game. Pretty good ending and I am relieved to have beaten it. I hate having games on m shelf that are 99% complete.